forst

See also: Forst, först, and først

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

forst

1. superlative degree of fors

Middle English

Noun

forst

1. Alternative form of frost

Old English

Alternative forms

• frost

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *frost, from Proto-Germanic *frustą, *frustaz, akin to Old High German frost, Old Norse frost. The surviving attestations show metathesis of r, but the descendants derive from a form without it.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /forst/, [forˠst]

Noun

forst m

1. frost

Declension

Declension of forst (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	forst	forstas
accusative	forst	forstas
genitive	forstes	forsta
dative	forste	forstum

Descendants

• Middle English: frost, forst, froste, vrost, frosst, freost
  • English: frost
  • Scots: frost
  • Yola: vrosth, vroste, vrast

Further reading

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “forst”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old High German

Alternative forms

• forhist

Etymology

From earlier forhist (“forest, pine forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *furhiþi.

Noun

forst f

1. firwood, pinewood
2. forest

Descendants

• Middle High German: vorst, (foreht)
  • German: Forst
    • → Swedish: forst-